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There has
been some inquiry about the Deep Games Workshops in connection with the Call
for Initiatives to Hack Health and Social Care. For some clarity to everyone, just a brief status update to
where we are in the planning.

Due to
official reasons, the Deep Games workshops scheduled to take place in Geneva at
CERN, and in Milan are in the process of being rescheduled for the early part
of 2017. The dates, time and venues will be advised shortly.

We continue
our promise of bridging the gap between mainstream health care and community
health care by embracing a collective approach. Just a reminder, if you have a
story about receiving or giving care and you think it can be replicated
elsewhere, or you have a maker approach in designing DIY health instruments and
devices, we want to hear from you. We're always interested in new initiatives.

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They seem like opposites, one driven by data and the other by emotion. Have we bridged art and science? Both are inquisitive with a fearless approach to the
unknown.

Susanna Wong, External Collaborator at CERN, SIAE
Composer and Art Director of POP Science Poetry Production says, “Opera needs to be reinvented, because if it does not change, it slowly
disappears”.An opera performance is an extraordinary production using sight, hearing, imagination and sensibility
of the audience where all human passions are at work. This art
form needs a fresh perspective joining all the components and blending their
expressiveness in a effort to understand, or should I say understand better,
the world and how it works.

The multicultural
journey

Susanna was
born in Ecuador, of Chinese origin, a naturalized Italian citizen, living in
Geneva. Susanna’s multi-cultural background and natural passion for
communication, music, dance, science and literature paved the way for
curiosity. Her journey began in 2006 when she started mixing science and the
arts together, developing POP Science poetry, an out-reach program of CERN
funded by the European Union. An initiative that brought poets together with
physicists to help share their fascination of science through poetry.

This
project proved to be a success, which inspired her to think out of bounds. With her passion for the arts, and the
intense feeling that the latest discoveries of science are meaningful
only if people are aware of them and the research involved. Susanna was challenged, how can she make the connection?

Susanna’s
inspiration stems back to her early adult years when she felt inspired by
reading about the discoveries that were changing the world. She had a feeling
of intrigue that scientists were grasping the change.She
recognized it was not easy for scientists and researchers in the past, as they
were considered absurd when they first introduced their findings to the world,
but later found they changed humanity for the better.

Despite its
unquestionable importance, we must recognize that science does not always lend
itself to uncomplicated explanation. Facts are questioned, in favour of emotion
and gut feeling. What if we could explain
these findings in a way that everyone could understand and at the same time
reintroduce an old art form that represents the clearest embodiment of music, orchestration, elaborate performances, and grand stories?

Sounds of
science

The OPERA Project
- a mix of art and science to create a modern opera and a powerful channel to reflect and tell a story. Susanna’s vision is to realize a creative development
with collaboration of artists, authors, musicians, actors, directors and
choreographers to produce a production that will make opera come alive again in
a most unusual way.

Her mission is to express the two sides of understanding, one rational, the other
emotional. Scientists and their emotions: highs and lows, the elation of making
a breakthrough and the misery of not doing so. Modern physics being unfamiliar to most people, will have the
platform to share idea through a creative collaboration.

Preserving the Opera

Science applauds
the beauty of their concepts and equations. On the other hand, as humans we are
intensely visual creatures. It will be extraordinary to use art to translate those
concepts and equations into forms that are visual, and that wide audience can admire and enjoy.The production of
Opera has diminished, mainly for the appearance of new forms of entertainment.

“These rarely reflect the new vision of the
world”, says Susanna Wong.

Image source Morguefile

Instruments,
musicians and vocals together giving strength to the other: a new message, new
insight and emotions are appearing. Exactly the same process that occurs during
collaboration over scientific research. The Opera project will tell the story of inspired new discoveries and science with a
360 degree view. It will be written together by a global community of
scientists, artists and choreographers.The Opera project will be a collaboration
with NASA, LIGO and IdeaSquare, CERN and International Opera Award in Italy.

An integration of science, art and education in creative ways providing potential and the much needed framework for new ways of questioning and knowledge creation.

As of now, this project is in the early stages of development.Subscribe to our blog and follow us on Twitter or Facebook while science through arts will revive the Opera and its heritage.

Interested to know more? Or, to help realize this project, contact us at opera@scimpulse.org